First, I would like to say that your post was much much better. No just quality but you weren't a jerk in it either. I apologize for being a dick to you earlier. I did explain why and I think you got my point and I genuinely appreciate that. You gave a little so I will give a little.
Originally posted by Devil King
In regards to this specific question? Yeah, you claiming you were arrogant. In regards to the thread, it has something to do with all this:This is where you injected yourself into the conversation. All your other posts were simple interaction, before this point. I asked how you were so good at telling he was being truthful; to which you replied by asking how I knew he was lying.
Well, I can assume it because he hasn't backed it up, which he could easily do, but he is saying I have inspired him not to trust anyone and you're saying he seems to know what he's talking about, so it must be true. (In turn, ignoring everything I have said about it up to this point in teh argument.)
Well, I can't respond to the above because my response doesn't fit right until later.
Originally posted by Devil King
Then why imply that it is so easy and obvious? Remember, "I don't know why DK doesn't believe him."?
He sounds consistently legit. You and I both know that that is hard to fake on the internet. One would make a blunder eventually. My above statement is not exactly what you think it is. I thought that after all the conversations you and he had, you would have believed him by now because it looked like he more than satisfied your quest for truth on the matter. You obviously did not get the complete truth you were looking for so your "jury" is still out on the "decision". (Lest you misinterpret my quotation marks, let me explain. I put them there because they are the perfect metaphor for this situation...it is not passive aggressive sarcasm.)
Originally posted by Devil King
Would Queeq like to say once and for all that he is NOT a subscriber to the bible being the divine word of god? He can settle it, and I'll have to eat my words. And if he believes in the god of the bible, he is a creationist. And like I said, if a person wants to pretend that Intelligent Design isn't creationist propoganda, he's full of shit.
I would hope that he would be able to view the data as objective as possible IF he was a believer in the presence of the divine relative to the bible.
and to your second point...
I believe that there is a God who created the universe slowly over billions of years. I believe that God created humanity through evolution...and not an instant "poof!" from dust. In fact, let me take a step further...
I don't believe God intervenes very often with humanity and that He created the entire universe and humanity all at once.
He did not have to do anything right after He created the universe because in it already was the perfectly prepared design for humanity that would eventually come of the universe's creation. He did ONE thing at the beginning and that is all He had to do because His intelligence is so developed. He wasn't on the side lines creating it step by step...it was an instant of perfect brilliance until humanities inception. I could keep going on and on, but you get the picture, right?
Originally posted by Devil King
But, he, again, won't address it; opting for crying abut how I made him distrustful of the forums.
I thought he had closed the book already on two of them and one you couldn't find enough information on? I keep reading from your posts that two of them are DEFINITELY not his and he keeps saying that you fail because you don't see something?
Originally posted by Devil King
But, if you believe that he directed those films, then maybe you should sit down and watch them, or look them up. Each and every one of them are presented as clearly furthering the various concepts set forth by the bible. One addresses the Shroud of Turin being a legitimate relic, proving the divinity of Jesus; the next is literally called A Biblical Quest; and the third is about Goliath and David.So when I claimed that you were defending him because you agree with him abou the existence of god, I based it off of this"
HOLY SHIT!!! Now that totally makes sense why you were accusing me of that. I did not know that and I didn't think that that was the significant factor behind your accusation. I literally thought you were pulling things out of your ass. Now that I know more about the content of the films, I can understand your motives behind your accusation. Can you now see why I thought you were making stuff up for the sake of being right? You still are not correct with your assumption, but now I know that you weren't fabricating just to be right.
But what were his motives with his work on those films? Was he doing to try and validate the divine or was he doing it to validate the historical significance of the bible? If it was the latter, then there should be nothing wrong with his interest in a directing collaborative role on these films. His motives will validate or invalidate his objectivity, won't they? Of course, he could say what we want to hear...but at that point, we just have to trust him.
Originally posted by Devil King
When I asked you why you were a mormon if you were sooo close to being an atheist, you said:That's not on the verge of atheism, neither is it [b]not
implying you sit around having conversations with a mythical super being that lives in the sky. (Which, correct me if I'm worng, but you said you didn't say you'd said) [/B]
No, it is close to atheism. Even AFTER I "heard" the answer to my prayer, I still doubted it and rationalized it with plenty of atheistic logic. Enough to satisfy myself completely. I have turned over the idea of atheism so many times in the past. I even rationalized with science that there is no need for a Creator for the universe to exist. (It was a very complicated extension of why black holes evaporate.)
I do not have conversations with God hardly ever. I certainly do say prayers...but a conversation implies a two way communication, doesn't it? I have prayed for heavenly messengers and did not get them. I have prayed for all sorts of direct signs and have not received them. Can you see why I have tossed the idea of atheism around?
Because you were real nice in you post to me, I told you a lot more about personal things. "You gave a little so I will give a little."
Did I miss a point of yours that you wanted me to cover? If so, name it.